Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed a long-serving economy minister who was arrested on suspicion of taking a $2m bribe in a deal involving the state-controlled oil giant Rosneft. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday that Putin fired Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev after losing trust in him. The 60-year-old was arrested late on Monday after he allegedly received the huge bribe in a sting operation set by the FSB, the KGB's main successor agency, an investigative committee said in a statement. Ulyukayev is the highest-ranking Russian official to be detained while in ... (full story)